Enterprise data center architecture is in the midst of the most dramatic change in decades. Hyperscale data centers have pioneered the software-defined data center (SDDC) on industry-standard hardware.
Application-Centric Infrastructure
The SDDC is much more application centric than the legacy data centers shackled by hardware-defined infrastructure and proprietary appliances. Say goodbye to the days of mapping storage capacity and network bandwidth to an application as a resource silo. Resource pools will be tuned for each application or user and be dynamically provisioned to meet performance, availability, elasticity or user proximity requirements.
There is huge value for modern, dynamic business environments in enabling new applications to be provisioned quickly and then given more or less resources in response to fluctuations in demand for the services provided by the application.